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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can read more
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Man wants but little, nor that little long;
How soon must he resign his very dust,
Which read more
Man wants but little, nor that little long;
How soon must he resign his very dust,
Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
[Lat., Quoniam id fieri read more
As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
[Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest
Id velis quod possis.]
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely read more
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
